Wayne County v. Herrin

How courts have described this case

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• writ of mandamus proper remedy where County employees with vested right in employment were terminated without due process
• deputy sheriffs in county without a civil service system lack a property interest in their employment
• writ of mandamus proper remedy where County employees with vested right in employment were terminated without due process
• “civil service systems rest on the principles of a merit system rather than (not in addition to) a spoils system”
• adoption of civil service system and accompanying manual does not create an oral contract; nevertheless, county is bound to follow manual
• termination of current employees covered by civil service system without due process was improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).